The sad thing is probably most of the cars are not running or registered or
just can't be for a variety of reasons. While it's nice to know how many are
still left the more important question in my mind is how many are still
running and driven. That's what I based my figure on and I really don't feel
it's too far off the mark.
If its hulks of rotten steel then perhaps there are 10,000 left rotting away
in the fields. There was a guy near Watkins Glen who I think had 4 in his
fields with trees growing through them, and Ed Unkle had about 4 or 5 and
the list goes on. But those cars will never see the light of day or a patch
of concrete under their wheels unless they are towed over it.
66 Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Frisbee <efris@home.com>
Cc: <Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us>; Laury; Victor <LauryV@MTA.NET>;
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: how many are left?
> I had written earlier that WyCROC has about 45 cars in it with 30 more
> around that we know of, plus 10 or so for sale... back in 91, I had a
> list of 61 roadsters that I had seen in the newpaper or in person from
> Colorado... of those cars, I haven't seen one in WyCROC... so I know
> there are a ton more roadsters in this area! It's amazing how they hide
> out... sometimes you see them heading the other way on the road and they
> mistake your frantic gesturing as an insane way of saying "cool
> car"... or you be driving out with the club and have one pull in
> behind you and they don't even turn around to see just why eleven
> roadsters were driving around together!?!?!? I would have to say
> there are probably about 200-300 roadsters out here in Colorado... I
> can even make a somewhat educated guess and say there have to be about
> 200+ in Missouri.
> I think if every club advised this list of their current memberships
> and cars they have seen, but haven't gotten into the club, we'd get a
> pretty close count. I don't think California has 90% of the running
> roadsters at all... more like 70-80% might be more realistic. Also,
> you can't take the current registries as gospel... a lot of people
> don't know about them or haven't put their info on them for whatever
> reasons...
>
> So I'll start this show... there are about 85 roadsters I know of in
> the Wyoming/Colorado area (including one member from New Mexico).
>
> Eric
> WyCROC
>
> Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us wrote:
> >
> > Victor,
> >
> > If 2,000 to 3,000 are in California, they sure aren't in the northern
half.
> > They must all be hanging out in L.A. Not counting Mike Young who has his
> > cars outside SF, there are probably less than 10 in San Francisco.
> > Personally I've met only 7 owners in SF. In the SF Bay Area, BADROC has
> > gotten interest from perhaps 30 roadster owners. A few of them have
> > multiple cars, Mike Young probably has the most, so my guess is maybe 60
to
> > 70 cars accounted for in the club. There are probably twice as many that
we
> > haven't heard from or those that aren't interested in us. So I'm
guessing
> > maybe 200 cars tops in the immediate SF Bay Area including runners and
> > junk. The Modesto group has a lot of cars, Sacramento has a few, and
Mike
> > Kerr has a bunch. I can only guess at the numbers but it can't be much
more
> > than 200 cars. I'm guessing maybe 500 max in Northern California to
include
> > junk as well as runners.
> >
> > Problem is, all I can do is make wild guesses based on what we see. And
> > from what I've seen, the majority of them out there don't run. I think a
> > lot of those will end up getting crushed or chopped up. So I think 66
Mike
> > has a better estimate.
> >
> > Mike has a good point about the vendors having more info on owners. Just
> > how many owners are out there?
> >
> > Fred
> > BADROC
> > 3 good ones and a destroyer of 2 cars
> >
> > ________________________ Reply Separator ________________________
> > Subject: RE: how many are left?
> > Author: "Laury; Victor" <LauryV@MTA.NET>
> > Date: 7/26/2000 3:59 PM
> >
> > Mike - If 2,000 to 3,000 WAS closer to the truth, then 90% of them are
here
> > in California! I'm backing the 10-15 grand estimate.
> >
> > Victor
> > 70 SRL 31113136
> > Los Angeles
> > http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=123073
> > SoCalROC http://www.ameri-eagle.com/datsun/
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: datsunmike [mailto:datsunmike@nyc.rr.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 3:19 PM
> > To: Steve Harvey; RoadsteRob@aol.com
> > Cc: mitch@ias.net; datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: how many are left?
> >
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > I think that figure is way too optimistic. These cars are at least 30 YO
and
> > were cheap to buy and often poorly maintained and let's not forget that
in
> > many parts of the US they simply rusted away. I personally know of at
least
> > 20 that were crushed or parted out over the last 20 years and that
doesn't
> > include the 4 I parted out or had crushed.
> >
> > I do believe a figure of 2000-3000 is probably closer to reality, if
that
> > many. We don't know how many were destroyed in accidents, how many were
> > crushed before computers and email brought us together or how many are
> > rusted hulks sitting in someones garage/barn.
> >
> > Perhaps our vendors can shed some light on this as they have more
contact
> > with owners.
> >
> > FWIW,
> >
> > 66 Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Steve Harvey <stevenh@execpc.com>
> > To: <RoadsteRob@aol.com>
> > Cc: <mitch@ias.net>; <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: how many are left?
> >
> >
> > > Hi List,
> > > I'm guessing 15,324 worldwide. I need a sponsor to fund my worldwide
quest
> > to
> > > count all of the roadster's in the world. Anyone?
> > > Steve Harvey
> > >
> > > RoadsteRob@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I may be way off target but my guess is 2500 worldwide. However, as
> > these
> > > > cars become more collectable I'm sure more will be dragged out of
barns
> > etc.
> > > > for restoration.
> > > >
> > > > Rob
> > > > 2 1/2 Roadsters (1/1000th of all remaining cars?)
> > >
> > >
> > >
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